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Louisa Downs

Shire of Halls Creek

Louisa Downs is a copper, zinc and lead exploration project in the Shire of Halls Creek, Western Australia. Its 3 WAMEX reports were lodged by 2 companies between 1969 and 1972, most recently Kennecott Exp Aust Pty Ltd in 1972.

Reports
3
Operators
2
companies on record
Worked
4yrs
1969 to 1972, 54 years ago
Main target
Copper
3 commodities on record
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Louisa Downs in the Shire of Halls Creek
Ground extent53 × 60 km
Report areas mapped2

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Louisa Downs , most active first.

Newmont Pty Ltd 2Kennecott Exp Aust Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 2 live and pending tenements sit over the Louisa Downs ground, held under 1 name.

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Exploration record on Louisa Downs

Local government
Shire of Halls Creek
Commodities targeted
Copper 3 · Zinc 3 · Lead 2
Work on record
Geological mapping 3 · Petrology 3 · Diamond drilling 2 · Mineragraphy 2 · Percussion drilling 2 · Rock chip sampling 2 · Aerial EM surveys 1 · Aerial magnetic sur 1
Resource declared
Never on this record
Downloadable data
2 of 3 reports include a digital package
Report types
Non-statutory 3
Reports by decade
21960s
11970s

Exploration reports

3 WAMEX reports filed over Louisa Downs .
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Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A5814 1972 Kennecott Exp Aust Pty Ltd Louisa Downs Project, Non-statutory Report: Final Report 1971 & 1972, December 1972, MC80/287-288, 295, 386,
A1462 1969 Newmont Pty Ltd Louisa Downs Project, Non-statutory Report: Geological Report on the Louisa Downs Copper Prospects, for the pe
A1460 1969 Newmont Pty Ltd Louisa Downs Project, Non-statutory Report: Report on Diamond Drilling & Geological Investigations, November 1

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What does the exploration record say about Louisa Downs ?

NextMaps reads the WAMEX reports over a chosen area into a referenced prospectivity assessment: the geology, the historical programs, the drill intercepts and geochemistry, and the untested gaps, with every claim cited back to its source report. New accounts include a free report. How the reports work.

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Tenure data sourced from the DMPE public registers and SLIP WA (© Government of Western Australia, CC BY 4.0). Compiled by NextMaps. Verify against primary sources before reliance.